Vidin Municipality

Due to the increased population of caterpillars, Vidin Municipality has taken measures for massive treatment against second-generation white American butterfly. On August 12, more than 900 trees were decontaminated in the most affected areas of the city.

The euthanasia of pigs in Vidin has started, there is no need to declare a state of emergency over the African swine fever outbreak, Tsvetan Asenov, Deputy Mayor of Vidin Municipality, told Focus Radio after a "backyard" pig tested positive for African swine fever last week.

Bulgaria's northwestern municipality of Vidin has initiated steps to terminate the waste disposal contract with concessionaire Titan AS amid a garbage crisis of over a week, according to Dobromir Dilov, interim Mayor of Vidin.

The District Court in Bulgaria's town of Vidin is due to sit on a request to discharge mayor Gergo Gergov issued by the Sofia City Prosecutor's Office.

Prosecutors indicted Gergov after he was arrested in an investigation carried out by the State Agency for National Security (DANS).